Catalin Teodoriu

Catalin Teodoriu, Ph.D.

MEWBOURNE CHAIR #6 IN PETROLEUM ENGINEERING; PROFESSOR OF PETROLEUM AND GEOLOGICAL ENGINEERING; Graduate Liaison, Drilling Simulation Center Director

Email: cteodoriu@ou.edu
Office: SEC 1135

Education

Ph.D., Technical Sciences, Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti
Ph.D., Engineering, Clausthal University of Technology
M.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti

Catalin Teodoriu is a professor in the Mewbourne School of Petroleum and Geological Engineering at the University of Oklahoma, with more than 15 years of combined experience in the petroleum industry and academia. At OU, he is establishing a one-of-a-kind testing facility for threaded connections and oil country tubular goods (OCTG) under complex loading conditions.

Before joining OU, Teodoriu served as head of the Sub-department for Drilling Technology, Completion and Workover at Clausthal University of Technology in Germany until 2015. From 2006 to 2009, he was an assistant professor at Texas A&M University, where he taught courses in drilling engineering, including Introduction to Drilling Engineering, Completion and Workover, and Advanced Drilling Engineering. He continues to maintain strong academic ties as an adjunct assistant professor in Texas A&M’s Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering and as an adjunct professor at the Oil and Gas University of Ploiesti.

Teodoriu’s research expertise centers on the development of advanced threaded connections for OCTG, as well as drilling challenges, failure analysis, and the design of innovative solutions to improve well integrity and reliability.

Research Interests

Drilling problems
Drilling dynamics and failure analysis
Well integrity
Cementing and threaded connections

Selected Publications

Book chapter: Teodoriu, C., Falcone, G., Bauer, M., Freeden, W., Jacobi, H. Neu, T.: Handbuch Tiefe Geothermie, Prospektion, Exploration, Realisierung, Nutzung, Kapitel Bohrtechnik für Tiefbohrung (Seite 303-336), Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 854 Pages, ISBN: 978-3-642-54511-5.
Teodoriu, C. Drilling Simulator Celle - A Hardware in the Loop Concept for Research, EEK, January 2014.
Parimal A. P., Teodoriu, C., Analysis of Bit–Rock Interaction During Stick–Slip Vibrations Using PDC Cutting Force Model, EEK, Oil and Gas Magazine, No. 3/2013.
Bär, F., Teodoriu, C., Overmeyer, L. Approaches for determination and reduction of non-productive times of drilling, © 2013 Logistics Journal: Proceedings – ISSN 2192-9084, DOI: 10.2195/lj_Proc_baer_de_201310_01, URN: urn:nbn:de:0009-14-37902.
Yuan, Z., Gardoni, P., Schubert, J., Teodoriu, C. Cement failure probability analysis in water injection well, Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering 107(2013), Pages 45-49.